Some distances from the Osprey (the best source we have at the moment 🙂
From the tree line to the line of march of P’Re is 0.5 miles, which is about 800 metres or 1040 paces or 13 barkers. If the chariot flank guards are 240 paces from the column and 80 paces wide, the tree line is 720 paces from the flank guards.
The whole column is 2 miles long, including baggage. This is 3200 metres or 4160 paces or 52 barkers. Given that there are 26 elements in the line of march (see below, minus 3 chariot elements on each side as flank guards), that means that if they are evenly spaced there should be 2 barkers from the front of one element to the front of the next element. To be generous we will put the SG in the middle to front of the column, so he can command as much as possible but not be killed by the Hittite attack.
The P’Re corps is a single command, with 5000 infantry and 500 chariots:
1 Sub General – Reg Cv(S)
9 Chariots – Reg Cv(S)
8 Close Fighters – Reg Bd(F)
8 Bowmen – Reg Bw(O)
2 Libyans – Irr Ps(I)
2 Nubians – Irr Ps(O)
2 Baggage Train – Reg Bge(I)
For a total of 42 ME (Disheartens on 10.5, breaks on 14).
In the actual battle it looks like it is disheartened but doesn’t actually break as the chariots from it continue to fight with Amun and the remnants rally during the night.
The Amun corps is also a single command, but we will give it more baggage than normal to reflect the royal princes and all the royal accessories. So it will have the same as P’Re but 8 Reg Bge(O) and 2 Reg Bd(O) as the Sherden Royal Guard. Thus its ME will be 50 (disheartens on 12.5, breaks on 16.6).
We could regard the baggage in the Amun camp as the army baggage but the Osprey seems adamant that P’Re also had baggage and it would make sense for each corps to have its own baggage as they were advancing and camping separately (the Osprey makes a good point that in mainly pastoral country in the bronze age 20,000 men would find it very hard to forage whereas 4 groups of 5,000 would find it much easier).
Update from last night after the game. The attack on the marching column (stretching over the first 5 feet of the table) worked very well with the Egyptians on the road so they could all march. The Hittites need to hit in the middle of the column though, so that not more than three Egyptian chariots escape for free to the north. The road also needs to bend to the north-east (towards Kadesh) for the last 3-4 feet of the board.
The camp also worked well with each side 7 barkers wide – 3 TF then a 1 base gap for the gate then 3 TF. Total of 24 TF for the outer wall. The inner zone was 3 barkers wide – TF then gap then TF on the east and west sides, 3 TF on the north and south. Total of 8 TF for the inner wall.